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Spring Semester 2011-2012

For Spring Semester 2011-2012, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205. 

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive.

The overarching theme this semester is likely to be "Active Sensation", perhaps to be modified at our first meeting.  Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

To add yourself to the BCS-L mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu with the body of the message saying simply join.  The subject line doesn't matter.  Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list.  See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details. 

You can enroll in the BCS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit  (1-2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).  The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall.  You are welcome to attend without enrolling, of course, but we do appreciate you enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present. 

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

24 January 2012:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
31 January 2012:  No meeting
  • A week off, so that you can get that thing done that you wanted to get done but couldn't because you didn't have the time.  Until now.  
7 February 2012:  Thom Cleland
  • Three Ways to Break Your Olfactory Bulb's Memory Circuitry.  Recent work on learning and memory within olfactory bulb -- in particular, the effects of muscarinic cholinergic antagonists, alpha-1 noradrenergic antagonists, isoflurane anesthesia, and potentially the fast glutamate reuptake transporter.  
14 February 2012:  Sasha Devore
21 February 2012:  Matt Law
28 February 2012:  TBD
  • Thom out of town
6 March 2012:  TBD
  • Thom out of town
13 March 2012:  Licurgo de Almeida
  • TBD
20 March 2012:  SPRING BREAK - NO BCS MEETING
  • n/a
27 March 2012:  Dave Bulkin
  • Thom out of town
3 April 2012:  SiWei Luo
  • TBD
10 April 2012:  Greg Peters
  • TBD
17 April 2012:  Guoshi Li
  • TBD
24 April 2012:  Adam Miller
  • TBD
1 May 2012:  Eyal Nitzany
  • TBD
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